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Mendocino County Today: March 18, 2013
FEDERAL JUDGE CLAUDIA WILKEN ruled last week that inmates held in Pelican Bay’s iso cells for years at a time can proceed with their federal lawsuit charging that these cells amount to mental torture....
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ABOUT 75 PEOPLE opposed to Caltrans’ plans for a bypass around Willits responded to a “high alert” call from Save Little Lake Valley to show up Monday morning starting at 7am at the tree-sit site off...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It’s the first day of Spring! Anyone feel like prancing through a meadow like a young gazelle? Oddly enough, I don’t. In fact,...
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The Need To Proceed For Speed
Ms. Dillon is a briskly smart, attractive young woman with an important job. She not only has to secure venues ranging from where to park the equipment trucks to film sites, she’s got to cool out...
View ArticleCrime & Punishment
“If I knew the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, your honor, why then I would be God! —Dick Gregory The week started out with two jury trials on Monday, but by early Tuesday both...
View ArticleValley People
DEBORAH SARSGARD has had to resign from her position as CSD trustee while she fights off cancer. Ms. Sarsgard is presently resting at a nursing care facility in Oakland in between rounds of...
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ABOUT 75 PEOPLE opposed to Caltrans’ plans for a bypass around Willits responded to a “high alert” call from Save Little Lake Valley to show up Monday morning starting at 7am at the tree-sit site off...
View ArticleThe Year Of The Concentrate
The Winter/Spring 2013 issue of O’Shaughnessy’s came out with a page-one article by Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD, under the headline “Use of ‘Dabs’ Gaining Popularity.” It explained: “The popularity of...
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Bypass Blockades Continue
In the past three weeks, construction crews employed by CalTrans on five occasions have rolled out big machines with the intention of installing construction fencing, cutting trees, and clearing brush...
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Mendocino County Today: March 20, 2013
Pinches SUPERVISOR JOHN PINCHES, according to Willits News staff writer Linda Williams, told the Brooktrails Community Services District last Tuesday that at least one supervisor favors removing...
View ArticleThe Thrill Of The Now
It was fitting that Rafael Puyana, the Colombian harpsichordist who died on March 1st in Paris at the age of 81, should have made his debut — on piano — in 1945 at the Teatro de Cristóbal Colón...
View ArticleThe Beauty Of Nature
Soon after we arrived in Anderson Valley in 1957, my father nailed a couple of elk horns onto the trunk of an oak tree in front of our house. As elk weren’t part of the natural landscape then (though...
View ArticleRoute 66
“If you ever plan to motor west, Travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks on route sixty-six.” — Bob Troup As I peruse the many articles decrying the ruination of towns and...
View ArticleRiver Views
The dog that wouldn’t die and the dog story that won’t quit — that’s what is currently bedeviling the Fort Bragg Police Department. The good news: a long time flophouse/drug house has been cleaned up...
View ArticleNaked In The City
Last Saturday about a half dozen naked men came biking down the street towards Golden Gate Park. Two had skimpy jockey shorts on, another had a backpack on, and one had only a hard-on, and I’m happy to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: March 21, 2013
WILLITS BYPASS? Hard to understand. The traffic through Willits is an embarrassment always and impossible on weekends. You can avoid through-town traffic by turning right at Brown’s Corner and going...
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
WHO’S IN THE POOL? Editor, Thursday, March 14, at 1pm, Mendocino County Treasurer, Shari Schapmire, convened a “Roundtable Discussion” of the Mendocino County Treasury Pool. We met in Conference C at...
View ArticleCool Hand Jet All The Way
It was in early adolescence that I first began to feel as if I were disappearing — actually discorporating. At times I felt insubstantial, airy. I thought I could feel wind blowing through me. My...
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Mendocino County Today: March 22, 2013
WILLITS WEEKLY’S CAT LEE reporting from the CHP press conference Thursday regarding the Willits Bypass and related protest(s): Eight arrests, no violence, no resistance, no destruction of equipment or...
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Mendocino County Today: March 23, 2012
DAN GJERDE, newly elected 4th District supervisor, provided crisp, to-the-point answers to several questions we put to him this week: Gjerde AVA: Are you commuting to Ukiah from your home in Fort...
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